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[ adverb ] to a notable extent
Examples "notably in the social sciences, the professors teach too much" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)The strains of neutralism are running strong , notably in England , and even in Germany . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)For_example , one hebephrenic man used_to annoy me , month after month , by saying , whenever I got_up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day , or whenever , `` You 're welcome '' , in a notably condescending fashion - as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him , and he were thus pointing_up my failure to utter a humbly grateful , `` thank_you '' to him at the end of each session . Related terms |
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